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And why might July be so jolly, you might ask? I’m in the UK, so it can’t be the beautiful weather 😉 It’s not my birthday. That’s next month. I’m not going on holiday. That’s also next month. So what’s got me so happy.

Well, that would be two new releases! By some stroke of luck, I’ve ended up with two releases scheduled for July, in two days, no less. One’s been in the pipeline for some time, and one has happened pretty damn quickly.

Testing Tom is released on the 30th July, and is a pretty hardcore femdom erotic romance. I even shocked myself when I was writing this one! The storyline popped into my head, and everything else came from nowhere as I was writing. However, I did have good fun creating this story, and it seems people are already interested in it, which I’m hoping is a good sign. It tells the story of professional dominatrix Katrina, whose boyfriend left her for a vanilla chick. She was devastated, naturally, and has tried her best to get on with life without him. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on which way you look at it) he turns up on her doorstep several months later saying he was wrong and begging for forgiveness. Katrina’s been hurt, and Tom has lost her trust. She wants to forgive and take him back, but she wants proof that he really wants her and won’t hurt her again. So she sets a series of tasks for him. If he passes them all, she’ll take him back. But these are no ordinary tasks…

A Taste of Paris is released on the 31st July, and is the second book in my A Taste of… series. The first book was set in London, and the action has now moved onto France’s capital city. The series is about two young men, Ryan and Kristian, who are on their gap year, travelling for a year before they start University. As young men are wont to do, they’re having fun, being footloose and fancy free, exploring, drinking and having sex. Ryan’s grown into quite the chick magnet, and he ends up having encounters on the Eurostar and in The Louvre, for starters. You wouldn’t think it could get much better than that, but it does. This is fiction, after all! 😉 The story leads up until the end of the Paris trip, where the boys head for Rome. I’m writing A Taste of Rome now, and hope to have it to my editor in the next couple of weeks.

I guess you can see why I’m happy now, can’t you? Two very different, very fun books, which I very much hope you’ll enjoy. There’s more information below, as well as the Goodreads links. I’d love it if you could add the books to your shelves.

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Testing Tom

When Katrina’s ex, Tom, turns up on her doorstep, he’s literally the last person she was expecting to see. After dumping her and running off with a vanilla chick, Tom broke the Domme’s heart and left her seriously hurting. So when he returns, begging for another chance, Katrina is understandably very confused and protective of her bruised feelings. She finds it very difficult to believe that he’s turned his back on a vanilla lifestyle for good and wants to be with her, a professional dominatrix. Rather than letting her head or her heart figure out what to do, whether to forgive him, she decides to put Tom through a series of challenges that will prove his devotion to her—or not. Testing Tom is not something she’d ever expected she’d have to do, but to her, it’s the only way she can be sure whether he’s back for good.

Ryan Stonebridge and his friend Kristian Hurst are traveling on their year off before going to University.

Unfortunately, Kristian has been called back home due to a family emergency. Ryan continues on to Paris alone, hoping his friend will join him again soon.

In the meantime, Ryan’s lucky streak with women continues, and by the time Kristian makes it to Paris, Ryan’s bumper box of condoms is depleting rapidly. However, there are more than enough women to go around, and Kristian intends to have some sexy fun of his own, and when the boys get a chance to play with two sexy ladies at once, they certainly aren’t going to turn it down.

Lucy Felthouse is a very busy woman! She writes erotica and erotic romance in a variety of subgenres and pairings, and has over seventy publications to her name, with many more in the pipeline. These include Best Bondage Erotica 2012 and 2013, and Best Women’s Erotica 2013. Another string to her bow is editing, and she has edited and co-edited a number of anthologies. She owns Erotica For All, and is book editor for Cliterati. Find out more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk. Join her on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9

The things I’ve written have variety. Whether it be word count, genre, pairings or heat level, I always seem to pen different things. It’s not done intentionally, it’s just that I tend to write whatever stories come into my head, unless I’m writing for a specific call for submissions which requires certain word count. What’s also different is that sometimes my erotica is just that, erotica. And sometimes it’s romantic, too. Otherwise known as erotic romance.

I started out penning pure erotica, or full on filth and only started including romance a year or so down the line. But now I love to write both, depending on how the mood takes me.

My latest releases are definitely what you’d call full on filth. And actually, they were both intended to be that way. A Taste of London was written specifically for Ellora’s Cave’s For Men range, which is why I intentionally made it dirtier, sexier and left out the romance. That’s not to say that the line doesn’t allow romance, because that’s not true. It’s just that it focuses on male fantasy and I thought that would be a good excuse to send a couple of young men on an adventure which just happened to be crammed with sexual encounters. It is very naughty, but if a woman wants to read an erotic story without romance, then there’s no reason she shouldn’t choose this one!

Raising the Bar, which is published by Decadent Publishing’s The Edge line, is also pure erotica. Again, romance is allowed in The Edge series, but I just wanted to write a really filthy story. This time, it’s aimed at both men and women, though if I’m honest, I think women will prefer it because there’s a seriously sexy man involved! There’s also a sunny foreign setting and a temporary feel to the whole thing, which allows the characters to throw caution to the wind much more when it comes to getting down and dirty in the bedroom.

So, if you like your stories with full on filth, then A Taste of London and Raising the Bar will definitely heat up your eReader. But if you’re looking for romance, then head to my website and check out some of my other stories—there’s something for everyone, pretty much!

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Ryan Stonebridge and his friend Kristian Hurst are heading off on the trip of a lifetime. They’re spending their gap year traveling the world and expect lots of sun, sights and sex. The guys have a couple of days in the English capital before catching the Eurostar to Paris. Unfortunately, a family emergency means that Kristian has to head back home for a while, leaving Ryan to continue the trip alone.

Luckily for Ryan, he’s an attractive guy and there is no shortage of gorgeous women available to help take his mind off Kristian’s family drama.

When Kayleigh takes a gap year before starting University, she decides she’s going to stay away from guys and just concentrate on having fun and experiencing life. That means going through a lot of batteries, but she’s happy and satisfied.

That is, until she gets to Spain on her travels and meets her new co-worker, Luciano. The scorching hot Spaniard soon has Kayleigh’s knickers in a twist— literally—and the time they spend together seriously raises the bar for her sex life. How will any other man ever compare?

Lucy is a graduate of the University of Derby, where she studied Creative Writing. During her first year, she was dared to write an erotic story – so she did. It went down a storm and she’s never looked back. Lucy has had stories published by Cleis Press, Constable and Robinson, Decadent Publishing, Ellora’s Cave, Evernight Publishing, House of Erotica, Ravenous Romance, Resplendence Publishing, Secret Cravings Publishing, Sweetmeats Press and Xcite Books. She is also the editor of Uniform Behaviour, Seducing the Myth, Smut by the Sea and Smut in the City. Find out more at http://www.lucyfelthouse.co.uk. Join her on Facebook and Twitter, and subscribe to her newsletter at: http://eepurl.com/gMQb9